How can Packet Shaping help your business?

The Internet is an absolute necessity for business today as more applications and communications depend on it.  Ultimately, the Internet connection becomes full and performance degrades.  The simple solution has been to add another T1 or additional lines.  
Is this really the right solution?

The first step is to see what kind of traffic is really on your network.

Identify network applications and analyze application behavior.  In some environments, peak demands are caused by excessive Internet browsing and downloads - including peer-to-peer file sharing applications, chat rooms, music downloads, audio and video streaming applications.  

Reports generated on network traffic patterns and application performance will help you determine your needs.  Knowing what is on your network also allows you to establish baseline performance criteria and to be able to develop policy-based bandwidth allocation rules.  

Y1 is a Packeteer Solutions Partner. Y1's network consultants will help you determine if your business needs packet shaping.  Working with your staff, they will implement network product-based solutions to separate application's traffic and give each the bandwidth required for appropriate performance.  Policies can be based on individual users, workgroups and time-of-day, to obtain peak efficiency for any network, from small offices through large data centers.

With packet shaping, Y1 will put you in control of how fast your Internet  applications perform and how much you spend on Internet access.